Cybersecurity

I have developed a couple cgi scripts that run to access data on our Solaris box, and was wondering how I could implement some type of login (via the browser) that would allow the user to use there login + password from the Solaris box as well. There is sensitive information produced in the reports that are generated via the cgi scripts and need to have some kind of authentication via from the client side. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Check the Apache FAQ and search for htaccess - also search this site for htaccess.

You probably also want to enable SSL if the info is sensitive.

Thank you for the reponses.. However after researching htaccess, it seems like you have to create a password file. Isn't there a way to use the System userid and password for this purpose, instead of having to maintain this information in another place as well?

Edit:
When I follow the instructions to create the .htpasswd file using:

htpasswd /dir path/password_file username

I don't get the prompt to enter a password, all I get is:

ksh: htpasswd: not found

???

is htpasswd in your path?

Maybe this will help:

http://pam.sourceforge.net/mod_auth_pam/

Don't know whether it will work on Solaris though.